acx100 wlan problems

[elempoimen]

I have a PCMCIA card based on the TI ACX100 chipset (I know, I know...).

Looking at dmesg, all is well during initialization until here:

acx100_issue_cmd failed: Invalid parameter [1200 uSec] Cmd: Ah, Result: Eh cb =0x1AE

Then all hell breaks loose. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

[elempoimen]

Originally Posted by elempoimen I have a PCMCIA card based on the TI ACX100 chipset (I know, I know...). Looking at dmesg, all is well during initialization until here: Then all hell breaks loose. Any ideas on what I can do to fix this?

I don't know if it will help any, but the only other distro I was able to get this card working in was MEPIS. There, I used this slick KDE wireless config app to manually assign the 2.4 GHz frequency to the card, then it worked like a charm. There is no such thing in Ubuntu.

The card is detected. The light is on, but Linux won't see it as a network interface. I tried the ndiswrapper, I tried modprobe, I tried everything I can think of.

[Magneto]

Have you tried the sourceforge drivers and instructions?

[Fred_og_ro]

I got it working!!

It all came with Ubuntu Warty 4.10.
My setup:
Toshiba Satellite 4000CDT
PCMCIA: D-Link AirPlus DWL-650+ (with the acx100)

What I did:
1. In bios.
- Disable parallel port ("Not used" in my bios)
- Set the PC Card Controller Mode to "CardBus/16-bit"
btw. I have "Device Config. = All Devices" and not "Device Config. = Setup by OS"

2. Moved the existing firmware in /lib/hotplug/firmware that applied to the acx_pci card (RADIO0d.BIN-2.6-8.1-3-386, RADIO11.BIN-2.6.8.1-3-386, RADIO15.BIN-2.6.8.1-3-386, TIACX111.BIN-2.6.8.1-3-386, WLANGEN.BIN-2.6.8.1-3-386)

3. Downloaded the latest drivers from ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/wireless/dwl-650+/ (I choose the dwl_650+_b_drv_v3.07.zip)

4. unzipped this and copied the firmware files from the Win2000 folder to /lib/hotplug/firmware. Do not add "-2.6.8.1-3-386" ending to these files like ubuntu does. I did like this from the Drivers/Win2000 folder
$: sudo cp RADIO0d.BIN /lib/hotplug/firmware/
$: sudo cp RADIO11.BIN /lib/hotplug/firmware/
$: sudo cp RADIO15.BIN /lib/hotplug/firmware/
$: sudo cp WLANGEN.bin /lib/hotplug/firmware/WLANGEN.BIN

(note the last file needs to be converted to uppercase letters)

5. rebooted (i know, i know)

And that was it...no messing with any gui tools, no messing with any config files.

hope this helps for you.

[elempoimen]

Fred_og_ro,

Thank you! This looks good, and I'm willing to give it a shot. This is one of the things that keeps me from dumping XP (that and power management issues). A question: why disable the parallel port? In my case, I need it for compatibiliy with a non-USB printer at one of my remote offices. Can this be done without disabling that port? I'm not sure I can even do this in my BIOS...IBM Thinkpad T23.

Thanks,
I'll be waiting for your reply!
elem

[Fred_og_ro]

Originally Posted by elempoimen A question: why disable the parallel port? In my case, I need it for compatibiliy with a non-USB printer at one of my remote offices. Can this be done without disabling that port? I'm not sure I can even do this in my BIOS...IBM Thinkpad T23.

I did it since there was an IRQ conflict....but I also had trouble getting my sound card working (Yamaha OPL3-SA2)...and since I tried to fix both things at the same time (i know, i know) I can't say which item it fixed (sound-card or acx_pci card)

I plan to enable the parallel port to see what that does....maybe it will work itself out.

Good luck with getting your acx_pci card up and running.